Buhari Presidency: Ngige List Out What The Igbos Need

Former governor of Anambra state, Senator Chris Ngige, has spoken on the expectations of the Igbo tribe as regards President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. 

Ngige who spoke to newsmen in Abuja which Daily Trust was part of, outlined the people’s expectations in this dispensation when he was asked what he thinks the people of the region will be looking forward to.

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He said, “The preponderance of the people of the South-East didn’t believe that a change of government was possible. Luckily, some of us believed in it, luckily our mantra in our party is change. While the people of the South-East are hoping, we also expect them to change in their political behaviour and political culture. There are a lot of things they will expect from our government, there are a lot of things we expect from them too, it’s reciprocal. This party is not like PDP, we don’t share money in polling booths like PDP is doing and even APGA, we don’t believe in that, they have to change.”

Ngige went on to make a case for the roads in the region, doling out the state of the roads, he said, “Our government believes in equity, everybody knows that South-East roads are some of the worst in the country. Enugu-Onitsha through Awka; Enugu-Okigwe-Umuahia-Aba-Port-Harcourt- impassable. Onitsha-Nnewi-Arondiziogwu- Okigwe; Umuahia-Ikot-Ekpene-Aba and Onitsha-Aba are all impassable, so many federal roads that abound there.

“So, the people of the South-East are looking up to this government to give them good roads and infrastructure. They will also expect the 2nd Niger Bridge which has been talked about for the past 18 to 20 years. The talk about the 2nd Niger Bridge is becoming embarrassing. This is a 1.8 kilometre bridge.

The 2nd Niger Bridge is what we expect this government to do for us because the other bridge is rickety, that bridge is in a state of disuse, it’s not been well managed, and it’s also a bridge that suffered the full weight of hostilities during the Civil War.”

Joining the mantra of anti-corruption that President Buhari is known to profess at every opportunity, Ngige joined his voice to the call, saying, “We will also as a government face corruption; once the system is not corrupt the people will benefit, the South easterners will benefit more because they are always out for competition, and if you give them a level playing field which is in an anti-corruption measure, the South easterners will thrive,”  he concluded.

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Recently, the traditional ruler of Onitsha, Igwe Nnaemeka Achebe, urged Igbos outside the southeast region to start investing in their home-land.

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